Quote Originally Posted by Zim View Post
As someone who has been fairly close professionally to incidents of this type on both sides I'd just like to state that I think sometimes too strong is a better way to react to rape accusations than too soft. Rape is underreported far more often than faked. It's a very hard crime to prove and difficult on the victim to admit. I've seen women (and children) whose lives have been destroyed by admitting to being raped. The children get it doubly worse as they're often put right back in the home of the person they accused. Even as someone who's had to take precautions to make sure noone got the wrong idea I'd still rather live in a society that took these accusations too seriously than not enough.
Rape is a terrible thing. I agree that in rape accusation should be taken seriously, but not as in insta-guilt as it seems to in recent years, especially when the media gets ahold of it. And this case apparently. Faking it is just as bad, and deserves the same sentence, possibly longer/shorter depending on the .